Geobge ligowsky



(N0 ModeL) G. LIGOWSKY.

FLYING TARGET.

No.' 311,768. Patented Feb. 3,1885.

llNllh STATES Parana trier.

GEORGE LIGOWVSKY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE LIGOVVSKYCLAY-PIGEON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FLYING TARGET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,768, dated February3, 1885.

Application filed September 11. 1883.

To aZZ whom it many concern' Be it known that l, GEORGE LIGOWSKY, acitizen of the United States, residing at Oincinnati, in the county ofHamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Flying Targets,of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to that class of flying targets commonly known asclay pig eons, on account of such devices being usually made of clay orearthenware, which material is so tempered or hardened by baking orburning in a kiln as to cause the pigeon to break or shatter when struckwith shot or other similar projectiles, as described in the variouspatents previously granted to me.

The present improvement consists in constructing a saucer or cup shapedtarget without slot, tongue, lug, or other lateral projection that mightimpede its whirl or axial rotation through the air, or which wouldinvolve precision and loss of time in applying the target to the trap orother sender. This saucer-shaped target or pigeon is put on the marketas a finished and integral article for sale, and is to be thrown fromthe trap and given its whirl by any suitable permanent or enduringinst-rumentality as, for instance, and advisably, by a spring bar orclip temporarily applied to said target for its destructive use, andretained for application to other pigeons as they in their turn are tobe thrown. Said spring-bar may be of any appropriate shape; but I preferto use the device seen in the application filed by myself in the UnitedStates Patent Ol'llCQ, August 11, 1883, No. 108,518.

In the annexed drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 are axial sections offour diflerent forms of my saucershaped flying target.

As seen in Fig. 1, the target, or pigeon coir sists of a shortcylindrical body or shell, A, having a crowning top, B, and, if desired,a circumferential head or molding, O, at the margin of said cylinder.The target is made of baked clay or earthenware,or other fragilematerial or composition of materials capable ot'beingrcadily puncturedor cracked when (No model.)

l i 1 l l i l l l i l l struck with shot. Furthermore, said target mustbe comparatively light and thin, and must be constructed without a slotor :1 lug, tongue, or other lateral projection of any kind whatever.

As seen in Fig. 2, the crowning top B is used; but the body, instead ofbeing exactly cylindrical, as represented in Fi 1, inclines outwardly atD, and then slopes inwardly at E, thereby causing the peripheral rim ofthe target to have the shape of an obtuse angle in cross-section.

In Fig. 3 the crown B is joined to an outwardly -flaring rim, F, thatmay be either curved, as shown, or it. may be simply a '65 straightincline or pitch, as represented at D in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4: represents the crown B as merging into a concave rim, G, of anyappropriate degree of curvature. Other and almost in- 7o numerablemodifications of the form of this saucer or cup shaped target willreadily suggest themselves to any person who is at all familiar with theuse of such devices. \Vhiclr ever form is selected allows thespringl'iar previously alluded to, or other device for imparting thewhirling motion in the act of throwi ng,to be engaged with the ri m,orotherwise applied to the target at any point along its periphery withoutspecial adjustment or forethought; and, owing to the symmetrical shapeof the pigeon, it can he cheaply 1nanufactured by the process describedin the patent granted to me August 23, 188i, No. 246,161 or said targetmay be made by any of the known processes or machines commonly employedin pott-erics, &c.

As a matter of finish or ornamentation, and also to prevent shotglancing therefrom, the outer surface of the target may be ribbed and 0grooved or varied in contour without departing from the saucer, cup, ordish form herein described.

I claim as my invention 1. A saucer or cup shaped [lying target formedas a thin shell of clay or similar material suitably hardened, withoutslot,tongue, or projection, substantially as and for the purposespecified, as a new article of manufacture.

2. A saucer or cup shaped flying target 00 having a peripheral flange ofuniform thick- In testimony whereofI affix my signature in nesscircumferentially, and without slot or presence of two Witnesses.

tongue or provision for the attachment of a T tongueor extraneous orspecial handle for! GEORGE LIGOWSKY' 5 propulsion, which mightconstitute an im pedinient to the axial rotation of the target,substantially as specified.

lVitnesses:

JAMES H. LAYMAN, SAML. S. CARPENTER.

